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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC CURTIS VEEDER, OF PLATTSBUBG, NEW YORK.

SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 244,693, dated July 19, 1881. Application filed October 11, 1880. (Model) To all whom-it may concern Beitknown that I, OURTIs HUSSEYVEEDER, of Plattsburg, of the county of Clinton and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Saddles and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanyin g drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, Fig. 3 a front-end View, Fig. .4 a rear-end View, Fig. 5 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 6 a transverse section, of a bicycle-saddle provided with my improvement, the plane of section of the latter figure being taken through the axis of the rotary shaft of the flexile seat-slack take-up mechanism. 1

My invention relates to saddles of velocipedes or bicycles, and is applicable to various other saddles, especially such as are for use on the backs of horses or beasts of burden; and it consists in the combination, with the flexile seat audits supporter or support-piece, of means of taking up the slack or tightening the seat, as occasion may required, to cause it to he of the proper tension for use.

In the drawings, A denotes the flexile seat of the saddle. This seat may be supposed to be a sheet of leather or other proper material or materials attached at its rear partto a curved metallic bar, a, fixed at its middle to another bar, b, extending lengthwise underneath the seat. At its front end the bar I) is fastened to a cross-piece, 0, provided with elastic and clamping hearings to receive and support a Windlass or shaft, 01, arranged in such.

bearings, as shown. Each of the said bearings, as represented, is so constructed as not only to support the shaft, but allow of it being revolved on its axis as occasion may require, but to'operate as acIamp to hold it in position, such clamping of it being'eft'ected by a screw, 0, and a nut, f, applied to ears 9 g, projecting up from the bearing. On screwing up the nut the bearin g will be contracted upon the shaft. The bearing on the screw, being unscrewed, will expand by its inherent elasticity. The screw goes loosely through one of the ears 9 and screws into and through the other, the nut being screwed on the screw and against the car, so as to serve as a set-nut.

To the shaft, by any suitable means, the toe or front end of the flexile seat is secured. On applying a wrench to the prismatic head i of the shaft, and revolving such shaft so as to wind the seat on it, such seat, when slack,may be tightened or taken up. This having been accomplished, the shaft may be clamped by turning up the nuts on the screws.

The support-piece of the saddle-seat is marked B,it being composed of the bars a and b, arranged as shown; but it may be otherwise constructed to answer the purpose of sustaining the seat at its rear.

There may be extended from the seat and over the clamps a sheet or piece of leather or other suitable material to cover them and serve as a'guard to prevent them from contact with a rider when's'itting on the saddle.

I claim as my invention or improvement in the saddle as follows:

1. The combination of the flexile seat and its supportpiece with means of taking up the slack or tightening the seat, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the rotary shaft and its two supporting-clamps with theflexile seat and its supportpiece, all being adapted, and to operate essentially, as shown and described.

CURTIS HUSSEY VEEDER.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

